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He offered at least one scenario in which he would take advantage of the new rule.

“It could be a [Stephen] Strasburg-[Clay] Kershaw matchup where there may be very few [runs] scored,” Williams said. “And, we have a scoring opportunity with a man on third base and a have a ground ball to the infield, which we think [the runner] potentially beat to score us a run. That’s a scenario.

The man's a genius. I never would have thought that would be a time to use IR.

He helped design the damn system...he's doing his part to piss people off. I wasn't in the room, but I'm pretty confident that TLR was the voice asking for managers challenge when every sane person was saying "what type of idiot would want that?"

The stall scenario is an interesting, and potentially objectionable, aspect to the whole thing. Now, it shouldn't be much of an issue if the play being considered for a challenge happens between batters. But if a guy is thrown out trying to steal/is ruled safe stealing, or there's a pickoff play, it will be interesting to see how the umpires move things along if one side or the other is trying to delay to consider whether a challenge is necessary.

I wonder if they'll need to create a rule that any intentional timeout (manager goes to the mound, batter goes down to review the signs with the third base coach) will preclude a team from challenging the previous play. And umps may have to just start calling automatic balls/strikes when one side is clearly not interested in proceeding.